On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 6:41 AM James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
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(Note: The current design doesn't have alias support, which Wikidata
does.)
At least in the github version of Denny's abstracttext, Z1K5 is for
aliases, so it DOES have alias support... But maybe you're talking about
the mockup design?
ZObjects which are function definitions (ZFunctions), and so may need a
lot of documentation and information sharing for people to know how to use
it, to expand it, to add new tests, or to add new implementations, will
have a fully-featured *wikitext description* blob/set of blobs, for
detailed documentation. These will be the main human starting points and
work co-ordination places, so need a lot of the things our communities have
come to expect – links, templates, categories, *etc.*.
On Wikidata, Wikidata: and other namespace pages have wikitext that can be
translated, with all the translated versions linked together so they have
the same sections which should be correlated - I think there's a MediaWiki
extension for it though I don't know much about it. While we obviously
can't go straight to the ultimate "abstract" representation, I think rather
than independent wikitext descriptions in each language you want something
that is linked together in this way. Otherwise how do you prevent the
wikitext description of a function in Chinese from being totally different
from its description in English?
Arthur